Word Finder - moves

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The act of moving; a movement.

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A slight move of the tiller, and the boat will go off course.

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An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.

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He made another move towards becoming a naturalized citizen.

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A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand combat, etc.

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She always gets spontaneous applause for that one move.

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The event of changing one's residence.

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The move into my fiancé's house took two long days.

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A change in strategy.

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I am worried about our boss's move.

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A transfer, a change from one employer to another.

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The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules of the game.

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If you roll a six, you can make two moves.

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• play

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To change place or posture; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to another.

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A ship moves rapidly.

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• stir

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To act; to take action; to begin to act

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Come on guys, let's move: there's work to do!

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• get moving
• stir

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To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and live at another place. See also move out and move in.

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I decided to move to the country for a more peaceful life.

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(and other games) To change the place of a piece in accordance with the rules of the game.

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My opponent's counter was moving much quicker round the board than mine.

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To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another

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The horse moves a carriage.

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• impel
• stir

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To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the rules of the game

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She moved the queen closer to the centre of the board.

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To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion, or appeal; to influence.

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This song moves me to dance.

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To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion, to excite (for example, an emotion).

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That book really moved me.

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• affect
• trouble

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To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration and determination, in a deliberative assembly; to submit

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I move to repeal the rule regarding obligatory school uniform.

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To mention; to raise (a question); to suggest (a course of action); to lodge (a complaint).

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To incite, urge (someone to do something); to solicit (someone for or of an issue); to make a proposal to.

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To apply to, as for aid.

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To request an action from the court.

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An attorney moved the court to issue a restraining order.

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To bow or salute upon meeting.

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To sell, to market (especially, but not exclusively, illegal products)

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A good ability to dance.

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Check out the guy on the dancefloor, he's got seriously good moves.

He moves to second floor.

This test involves only changes of velocity, and so does not distinguish between two bases, each of which moves relatively to the other with uniform velocity without rotation.

Rhyn made no moves on her, simply rolled to tuck her against his warm body.

What I mean is that the world moves more slowly.

In that gland the mystery of creation is concentrated; thought meets extension and directs it; extension moves towards thought and is perceived.

This system is mischievous, since, if a few consecutive bad seasons occur, the farmer moves to some more favoured spot; while, on the other hand, a succession of good years tends to increase rents.

A ray of light from a lamp is thrown on the mirror, whence it is reflected upon a white surface or scale set at a distance of about 3 ft., forming a bright spot on the surface; the slightest angular deflexion of the mirror, owing to its distance from the scale, moves the spot of light a very appreciable distance to the right or left according to the direction of the angular movement.

Of the enemy's plans Napoleon knew nothing, but, in accordance with his usual practice, the position he had selected met all immediate possible moves.

On the left, towards which the slower ion moves, only three molecules remain - a loss of four.

But the whole inquiry moves .in a world of unrealities.

Taking advantage of these results, Henri Pitot (1695-1771) afterwards showed that the retardations arising from friction are inversely as the diameters of the pipes in which the fluid moves.

The land has hills and valleys, but the surface of water at rest is a horizontal plane; and if disturbed the surface moves in waves.

The first vortex dilates and moves slower, while the second contracts and shoots through the first; after which the motion is reversed periodically, as if in a game of leap-frog.

Projected perpendicularly against a plane boundary, the motion is determined by an equal opposite vortex ring, the optical image; the vortex ring spreads out and moves more slowly as it approaches the wall; at the same time the molecular rotation, inversely as the cross-section of the vortex, is seen to increase.

For a cavity filled with liquid in the interior of the body, since the liquid inside moves bodily for a motion of translation only, 41 = - x, 42 = -, 43 = - z; (2) but a rotation will stir up the liquid in the cavity, so that the'x's depend on the shape of the surface.

The hake moves laterally on a quadrant and it is thus possible to give the plough a tendency to left or right by moving the hake in the reverse direction.

As it moves north it becomes gradually warmed and takes up moisture instead of depositing it as rain.

The hexameter no longer, as in Lucilius, moves awkwardly as if in fetters, but, like the language of Terence, of Catullus in his lighter pieces, of Cicero in his letters to Atticus, adapts itself to the everyday intercourse of life.

Among savage and nomadic nations the whole tribe often moves into new territory, either occupying it for the first time or exterminating or driving out the indigenous inhabitants.

The next moves were more purely warlike.

The insect is fixed by its proboscis, but moves its abdomen about and lays thirty to forty yellow eggs in small clusters.

The reverse motion of P automatically moves the paper ribbon forward, ready to - 20 receive the next impression.

Having selected the most suitable one he directs the axis of the finder to the estimated middle point between the comet and the star, turns the finder-micrometer in position angle until the images of comet and star lie symmetrically between the parallel position wires, and then turns the micrometer screw (which moves the distance-wires symmetrically from the centre in opposite directions) till one wire bisects the comet and the other the star.

Its home seems to be in Central Asia, but it moves southward in winter, being common at that season in Cashmere, and is not unfrequently brought for sale to Calcutta.

And the world of the spirit and the world of nature continue to have this distinction, that the latter moves only in a recurring cycle while the former certainly also makes progress."

Thus Wellington did not even yet realize the full significance of the emperor's opening moves.

A plane figure bounded by a continuous curve, or a solid figure bounded by a continuous surface, may generally be most conveniently regarded as generated by a straight line, or a plane area, moving in a fixed direction at right angles to itself, and changing as it moves.

The fillets are placed on an endless chain which moves slowly through the furnace, returning underneath.

Yet on occasion, as when performing its migrations, or even its almost daily transits from one feeding-ground to another, and still more when being pursued by a falcon, the speed with which it moves through the air is very considerable.

As AB moves from CD to EF it pushes forward the layer of air in contact with it.

Let the cylinder be rotated so that each white line moves exactly into the place of the next while the prong moves once in and out.

A very noticeable illustration of the alteration of pitch by motion occurs when a whistling locomotive moves rapidly past an observer.

An observer in the plane of the motion can easily hear a change in the pitch as the pitch-pipe moves to and from him.

If now the curve moves along unchanged in form in the direction ABC with uniform velocity U, the epoch e =OA at any time t will be Ut, so that the value of y may be represented as 2 y=a sin T (x - Ut).

When the velocity of the jet is gradually increased there is a certain range of velocity for which the jet is unstable, so that any deviation from the straight rush-out tends to increase as the jet moves up. If then the jet is just on the point of instability, and is subjected as its base to alternations of motion, the sinuosities impressed on the jet become larger and larger as it flows out, and the flame is as it were folded on itself.

When the motion due to the vibration is up along the pipe from the embouchure, the air moves into the pipe from the outside, and carries the sheet-like stream in with it to the inside of the sharp edge.

When the motion is reversed and the air moves out of the pipe at the embouchure, the sheet is deflected on to the outer side of the sharp edge, and no work is done against it by the air in the pipe.

When two trains of sound waves travel through the same medium, each particle of the air, being simultaneously affected by the disturbances due to the different waves, moves in a different manner than it would if only acted on by each wave singly.

In fact, Oku's march began on June 13th, Kuroki's on June 24th; the moves of the intermediate forces at various dates within this time.

At Wyandotte were made the first moves for the Territorial organization of Kansas and Nebraska.

We recognize an atom only through its physical activities, as manifested in its interactions with other atoms at a distance from it; this field of physical activity would be identical with the surrounding field of aethereal motion or strain that is inseparably associated with the nucleus, and is carried on along with it as it moves.

In the present case the total dielectric contribution to this current works out to be the change per unit time in the electric separation in the molecules of the element of volume, as it moves uniformly with the matter, all other effects being compensated molecularly without affecting the propagation.

With respect to the first moves made in the struggle, and the negotiations for peace at the outset of hostilities, Caesar's account sometimes conflicts with the testimony of Cicero's correspondence or implies movements which cannot be reconciled with geographical facts.

The fact that in certain simple cases where a line when looked at equatorially splits into a triplet, the ratio of the charge to the mass is found by Lorentz's theory to be equal to that observed in the carrier of the kathode ray, shows that in these cases the electron moves as an independent body and is not linked in its motion to other electrons.

In astronomy the "mean sun" is a fictitious sun which moves uniformly in the celestial equator and has its right ascension always equal to the sun's mean longitude.

The "mean moon" is a fictitious moon which moves around the earth with a uniform velocity and in the same time as the real moon.

Aristotle thought that God is only prime mover, and that too only as the good for the sake of which Nature moves; so that God moves as motive.

In the twilight it moves about cautiously and as noiselessly as a rat, to which, indeed, at this time it bears some outward resemblance.

The whole body moves forward slowly, always advancing in the swine general direction in which they originally started, but following more or less the course of the great valleys.

The needle is so mounted that it only moves freely in the horizontal plane, and therefore the horizontal component of the earth's force alone directs it.